Count Love

Since January 20th, 2017, we've learned about protests with over
attendees—individuals demonstrating for inclusion, human
rights and the environment. Below, maps show statistics broken down by state
and interesting trends between states.

This page reflects events up to .

The cartograms below display states sized by their population and colored by their protest
activity (total number of attendees, attendees per capita or “protest effort per resident,” and total
protests). Switching from a geographic to a population-based representation of the country
relates protest activity to the number of people living in each state, instead of relating protest
activity to the amount of land in each state. Notably, small but densely populated states like
Massachusetts take on greater visual importance in population-based cartograms, and large but sparsely
populated states like Wyoming are de-emphasized.
Here's a great article that further discusses differences between data visualizations using cartograms and maps.